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Utility and limitations of Google searches on sensory loss as markers for new COVID-19 cases

2020-05-11

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Evidence of smell loss in COVID-19 is growing. Researchers and analysts have suggested to use Google searches on smell loss as indicators of COVID-19 cases. However, such searches may be due to interest elicited by media coverage of the COVID-19-related smell loss, rather than attempts to understand self-symptoms. We analyzed searches related to 4 senses: smell and taste (both recently shown to be impaired in some...

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Literature Corpus work: 3020747b-1cfe-5b6c-b840-b46ec8159f10
DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.07.20093955

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